HIGH WILLHAYS
“If you look away to the far side of Fox Tor Mire you might just make out in the distance a stone cross standing on a granite plinth. This is Childe’s Tomb. Childe was a hunter who died in a terrible storm and blizzard crossing Dartmoor and, trying to shelter, he killed his horse and crept into the still warm carcase but it was no good. Before he died he wrote in blood on a sheet of parchment that whoever gave his body a Christian burial could have all his lands. …Monks from Buckland Abbey crossing the moor
